A few years ago, I attended a reception with the president and other faculty members of my university. One of these distinguished members asked the group of students what the best book we'd read recently was. Other students predictably mentioned classics or books that could be considered literary fiction, and I considered doing the same myself. … Continue reading Character Analysis in Children’s Media – Part One
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Music and Writing
Something I've seen many authors talk about is having a writing playlist. This is something that I swear by--so much so that I have over twenty Spotify playlists just for different books I've worked on. I've even plotted a few books through music. This involved picking songs that seemed relevant to the mood and creating … Continue reading Music and Writing
The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Cigarette
A Lesson on the Importance of Continuity Photo by Irina Iriser on Pexels.com Charlie O'Brian and Declan Falker, title characters of their novel, have the unfortunate 1920s habit of smoking. I'm just going to tell you right now, characters who smoke are just flat out troublemakers. At least in my book. This book was a … Continue reading The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Cigarette
The Mental Health Series
Search "mental health" for me on your browser. Go on. I'll wait. On bing.com, you get 224,000,000 results. On google.com, you get 1,410,000,000 results. That's a lot of results. And like anything on the internet, how do you know which of those 1,634,000,000 results are reliable? Behold my decent looking brain sketch and god awful … Continue reading The Mental Health Series